1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands


The European Parliament election of 1999 in the Netherlands was the election of MEP representing Netherlands constituency for the 1999–2004 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 1999 European election. It was held on 10 June 1999. Eleven parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for 31 seats.

Background

Combined lists

Several parties combined in one list to take part in this European Election and increase their chance on a seat in the European Parliament.
These combined lists are:
  1. SGP, RPF and GPV

    Electoral alliances

No lists formed an electoral alliance.

Numbering of the candidates list

The official order and names of candidate lists:

Results

Turnout

The voter turnout was 30.02%, a lot lower, than the turnout in 1994.
A total of 11,862,864 people were entitled to vote. Of these 3,560,764 did so.

Seat assignment

Electoral quota

The electoral quota is the number of votes needed for one seat.
It is the total valid number of votes divided by the number of seats.

For this election it was 3,544,408 valid votes, divided by 31 seats.

The electoral quota was established as: 114,335

Assigning full seats

Full seats are assigned by number of votes divided by the electoral quota.
Electoral alliances are marked as a letter, instead of a number.
Any seats left over are not yet assigned to a specific party.

Remainder seats

The remaining, or left over, seats are awarded sequentially to the lists with the highest average number of votes per seat.
Only lists that reached the electoral quota are eligible.
ListRemainder seat 1Remainder seat 2Remainder seat 3Remainder seat 4Total
1106,09995,48995,48995,4891
2101,847101,847101,847101,8470
399,72199,72199,72199,7210
4102,811102,811102,811102,8111
5103,204103,204103,20477,4031
6104,967104,96783,97383,9731
1089,32189,32189,32189,3210
Assigned to1654

With only 30 percent of the population showing up, the voter turnout hit an all-time low for Dutch elections on the national level. In the election the GreenLeft performed particularly well quadrupling their seats from one to four. The Socialist Party won its first seat. These gains were made at the cost of the Christian Democratic Appeal, Democrats 66 and the PvdA, which lost one, two and two seats respectively.

European groups

The EPP-ED group becomes the biggest group this election despite losing seat. This because the ELDR group in the Netherlands lost 2 seats from the Democrats 66. The EG-EFA group makes a big gain in seat, thanks to the win of GreenLeft. The Socialist Party won EUL-NGL its first seat in the Netherlands.

Elected members

Below are all the elected members of European parliament for the Netherlands. Members elected by preference votes are in bold. To be elected by preference votes, 10% of the electoral quota is needed.
Source:
Christian Democratic Appeal
  1. Hanja Maij-Weggen, by 591,505 votes
  2. Wim van Velzen, by 103,743 votes
  3. Ria Oomen-Ruijten, by 99,584 votes
  4. Albert Jan Maat, by 34,622 votes
  5. Arie Oostlander, by 17,628 votes
  6. Maria Martens, by 16,254 votes
  7. Karla Peijs, by 11,975 votes
  8. Bartho Pronk, by 7,929 votes
  9. Bert Doorn, by 3,598 votes
Labour Party
  1. Max van den Berg, by 584,167 votes
  2. Ieke van den Burg, by 55,016 votes
  3. Joke Swiebel, by 12,554 votes
  4. Jan Marinus Wiersma, by 9,753 votes
  5. Michiel van Hulten, by 5,710 votes
  6. Dorette Corbey, by 4,898 votes
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
  1. Jan-Kees Wiebenga, by 535,904 votes
  2. Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, by 45,855 votes
  3. Toine Manders, by 14,237 votes
  4. Jan Mulder, by 13,825 votes
  5. Marieke Sanders-ten Holte, by 11,670 votes
  6. Jules Maaten, by 4,341 votes
GreenLeft
  1. Joost Lagendijk, by 245,642 votes
  2. Kathalijne Buitenweg, by 90,549 votes
  3. Theo Bouwman, by 6,012 votes
  4. Alexander de Roo, by 4,343 votes
SGP, GPV and RPF
  1. Hans Blokland , by 245,214 votes
  2. Bas Belder, by 20,491 votes
  3. Rijk van Dam, by 10,630 votes
Democrats 66
  1. Lousewies van der Laan, by 143,009 votes
  2. Bob van den Bos, by 8,712 votes
Socialist Party
  1. Erik Meijer, by 124,800 votes

    MEPs period 1999–2004

Below is a list of members of the European Parliament for the period 1999–2004 as a result of this election.